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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

"If you’re going to pull a Chinese take-out with the pretty Han characters on every goddamn door and container, and afflict the cast with some bizarre form of nearly-coherent Anglo-Sinitic glossolalia, then shouldn’t you consider incorporating one or two basic elements of actual Chinese social norms into the way these people actually relate to each other? You know, just so viewers like me don’t get the impression that the show’s creator doesn’t know jack shit about the Chinese other than that they helped gift the world with chinoiserie, use chopsticks, speak a funny language and have pretty writing. Or shit, at least take some token affirmative action and have a few characters of East Asian descent show up as guest stars?"

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Sinorrhea: Why Joss Whedon’s Firefly Annoys Me by A.Z. Foreman

(HT Zompist’s E-Z rant page)

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atompunk: Long live the great unity of all the peoples of the whole nation chineseposters.net: Designer: Yang Junsheng (杨俊生) 1957, January Long live the great unity of all the peoples of the whole nation Quanguo ge minzu da tuanjie wansui (全国各民族大团结万岁) Publisher: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社) Size: 53x77 cm. Call number: BG E15/355 (Landsberger collection) Representatives of the different ‘National Minorities’ of China take part in a parade on Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

atompunk:

Long live the great unity of all the peoples of the whole nation

chineseposters.net:

Designer: Yang Junsheng (杨俊生)
1957, January
Long live the great unity of all the peoples of the whole nation
Quanguo ge minzu da tuanjie wansui (全国各民族大团结万岁)
Publisher: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
Size: 53x77 cm.
Call number: BG E15/355 (Landsberger collection)

Representatives of the different ‘National Minorities’ of China take part in a parade on Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
chineseposters.net: Designers: Shao Hua (邵华); Shao Qinglin (绍青林) 1976, June Herdspeople love to read books by Lenin and Marx Mumin aidu Ma Lie shu (牧民爱读马列书) Publisher: Renmin meishu chubanshe (人民美术出版社) Size: 77x54 cm. Call number: BG E15/199 (Landsberger collection) State bookshop in the North of China, where Mongolians and other ‘minority peoples’ live. The young woman on the right carries rolls of posters in her bag.

chineseposters.net:


Designers: Shao Hua (邵华); Shao Qinglin (绍青林)
1976, June
Herdspeople love to read books by Lenin and Marx
Mumin aidu Ma Lie shu (牧民爱读马列书)
Publisher: Renmin meishu chubanshe (人民美术出版社)
Size: 77x54 cm.
Call number: BG E15/199 (Landsberger collection)

State bookshop in the North of China, where Mongolians and other ‘minority peoples’ live. The young woman on the right carries rolls of posters in her bag.
atompunk: From Chineseposters.net: Designer: Ge Wei (戈韦) 1955, MarchAll nationalities of our nation have already united into a great family of independent and equal nationalities Woguo ge minzu yijing tuanjie wei yige ziyou pingdengde minzu da jiating (我国各民族已经团结为一个自由平等的民族大家庭) Publisher: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社) Size: 77x53 cm. Call number: BG E15/297 (Landsberger collection)

atompunk:

From Chineseposters.net:

Designer: Ge Wei (戈韦)
1955, March

All nationalities of our nation have already united into a great family of independent and equal nationalities
Woguo ge minzu yijing tuanjie wei yige ziyou pingdengde minzu da jiating (我国各民族已经团结为一个自由平等的民族大家庭)

Publisher: Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
Size: 77x53 cm.
Call number: BG E15/297 (Landsberger collection)

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